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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shuji Fujii, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; G09G / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358456 ; 358444 ; 358453 ; 358458 ; 358460 ;
Abstract
An image output device includes a tone pattern generator 33 of an image processing portion 3 which, on the basis of image data representing border positions of a plurality of regions of an image divided according to density values thereof, generates a tone dot pattern corresponding to the density value of the region, a closed region assigning circuit 32 for assigning a closed region on an image memory corresponding to the resolution d of the respective closed region of the image, and a filling out processing circuit 34 writes the tone dot pattern in the assigned closed region as image data having the resolution d.